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India coronavirus, COVID-19 live updates, May 11: LIVE: Gujarat cases mount to 8,542; death count at 513
As the nationwide coronavirus lockdown 3.0 is scheduled to end on May 17, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will interact with Chief Ministers of various states via video conference on Monday (May 11) afternoon. According to reports, the Prime Minister will review India`s progress in containing coronavirus disease while gradually restarting economic activities in a phased manner.
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Over 42.2 lakh worldwide COVID-19 cases with 2.85 lakh deaths. Russia reported 11,650 cases in the last 24 hours.
Gujarat: The total number of COVID-19 cases - 8,542. In the last 24 hours - 347. Active cases stand at 5,249. Total deaths - 513. Over 2,780 have recovered.
Uttar Pradesh: 109 cases reported today. The total number of cases in the state is now at 3,573, including 1,758 discharged, 1,735 active cases, and 80 deaths.
Maharashtra: 1,230 new positive cases and 36 deaths reported in the state today. The total number of positive cases in the state rises to 23,401, total deaths stand at 868.
Telangana: 79 new positive cases reported today, the total number of positive cases in the state jumped to 1,275 including 444 active cases, 801 cured/discharged, and 30 deaths.
West Bengal: New cases: 124. Total active cases: 1,374. Total cases: 2,063. New deaths: 5. Total deaths: 118. Total discharged: 499
As per MHA guideline, a copy of the online railway ticket will act as your emergency pass, if you are travelling in your cab no pass is needed even for the driver who is going to drop the passenger. But they have to follow states guideline like not more than 2 passengers in a cab etc. If anybody does not have a conveyance of his own, MHA or Railways have nothing to say. Respective states may answer will they arrange or not.
Uttar Pradesh: 4 more cases reported in Gautam Buddha Nagar district today. The total number of cases in the district is now at 222, including 85 active patients, 135 discharged, and 2 deaths.
Chairman, Empowered Group 9: Privacy is a very important feature of the Aarogya Setu App. A unique anonymous randomized ID is generated for the device of a new user. So far 9.8 crore people have downloaded the Aarogya Setu app.
Karnataka: 14 more COVID-19 cases reported in the last 24 hours. The total number of cases in the state jumped to 862, including 426 discharges and 31 deaths.
Gujarat Additional Chief Secy Rajiv Kumar Gupta: Home delivery has been made mandatorily cashless in Ahmedabad. To prevent the spread of COVID-19 through currency notes, it is mandatory to accept the digital mode of payments through Unified Payment Interface (UPI) and other platforms.
Chairman, Empowered Group 9: Aarogya Setu App is playing a crucial role in India's fight against COVID-19. The app has been developed in order to alert people before they come in contact with infected patients and to alert health system to take adequate steps for their help. Special surveillance system was developed in order to make proper health data on testing, #AarogyaSetu app data and contact tracing available to health professionals and administrators.
Ministry of Railways: Data pertaining to special trains is being fed on the IRCTC website. Train ticket bookings will be available in a short while. Please wait. Inconvenience is regretted.
Bengal Imam Association Chairman, Md. Yahya writes to other Imams of the state. Says there are close to 2,000 Madrasas in Bengal, Madrasas are presently close due to the shut down besides schools and colleges. These Madrasas should be offered to the government to make isolation centre, quarantine centre. In his letter, he says, “Only criticising the govt will not help. One must come forward to help. This is the only opportunity to stand by the society, there will be no second chance. Must offer these premises to the state government.”
Health Ministry: It also important to note that this discharge policy is not meant for home or facility quarantine patients because quarantine is for asymptomatic/ healthy person who has been exposed to the virus but does not show any symptoms.
Health Ministry: In severe cases who are immuno-compromised (such as HIV patients, transplant recipients, malignancy, etc), patients will be discharged only if they are clinically recovered or if the patient tests turn negative once by RT-PCR (after the resolution of symptoms).
Health Ministry: On May 8, the Health Ministry issued a revised discharge policy for confirmed COVID-19 patients. It is aligned with the guidelines on 3 tier COVID facilities and categorisation of patients based on clinical severity.
As per the revised policy, the Mild/very mild/pre-symptomatic cases admitted to COVID care facility:
1) Can be discharged after 10 days of symptom onset and if there is no fever for 3 days.
2) No need to test before discharge.
3) Advised for home isolation after discharge.
Health Ministry: Today, when we are fighting a communicable disease like COVID-19, there is a need for every kind of support from the community, most important is health-seeking behaviour. Don't hide symptoms of COVID-19, rather step out and get timely treatment.
West Bengal: Total number of COVID-19 positive cases at Kolkata port Trust rises to 15. KoPT employees: 5, Contract Employees: 4, CISF: 3, Outsiders: 3.
Uttar Pradesh Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Awanish Awasthi: So far, 184 trains have brought 2.26 lakh migrant workers from other states. 55 more trains will arrive in Uttar Pradesh today. Around 1 lakh migrant workers have returned by their own conveyance.
PM Modi holds meet with CMs through video conference.
Paramilitary forces test COVID-19 positive: More than 530 Paramilitary forces soldiers tested positive so far.
Details:
BSF: 223
CRPF: 162
ITBP: 82
CISF: 48
SSB: 17Rajasthan: 126 new cases of COVID19 and 2 deaths have been reported in the state till 1 pm, taking the total number of cases to 3940 and 110 deaths. The number of active cases stands at 1566. (ANI report)
Chandigarh: Public dealings in government offices to begin from May 18, says the administration.
Bihar: 7 more positive cases reported in the state, taking the total tally to 714 in the state.
Karnataka: 10 new cases of COVID-19 have been reported in the state, taking the total number of positive cases to 858 including 31 deaths and 422 discharges.
India COVID-19 data and graph
Maharashtra: The APMC market of Navi Mumbai will remain completely closed from May 11 to May 17. The vegetable market, fruit market, cereal market, masala mandi, will also remain completely shut. The decision comes as around 100 sellers working in the market have been infected with the coronavirus.
Vande Bharat Mission: Air India Express flight from US (San Francisco) landed at Hyderabad Airport on Monday.
Jharkhand: Total of 160 positive COVID19 cases have been reported in the state which includes 79 active cases, 78 are recovered/discharged cases, says Jharkhand Health Department.
Delhi: Health minister Satyendra Jain said that 310 cases of coronavirus were reported in the last 24 hours, and the total number of cases in the national capital now stands at 7,233.
Delhi: LG Anil Baijal expresses sadness on the demise of COVID-19 warrior Baikali Sarkar.
Andhra Pradesh: 38 new positive COVID-19 cases reported in the state, tally rises to 2,018.
Shramik Trains: Shramik special trains to now have up to three stoppages in the destination state. They will now run with the full capacity of around 1,700 people instead of 1,200.
More than 1 lakh cases registered and 19,630 people arrested in Maharashtra for violation of lockdown rules. (Read here)
Bihar: 11 more COVID-19 cases reported from the state. Tally rises to 707.
Maharashtra: Buldhana district becomes corona free as the last three-person who tested COVID-19 positive recovered. Total of 24 cases was reported from the district in which 23 recovered and 1 died.
Agra: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath send 5 member teams to Agra to monitor COVID-19 situation. The list of names include - Alok Kumar, Principal Secretary / Nodal Officer Agra, Rajneesh Dubey Principal Secretary Medical Education, Vijay Prakash ..IG (IPS), Dr. Avinash Kumar Singh Special Officer, Prof. Alok Nath Professor SGPGI Lucknow.
Uttar Pradesh: Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh Yogi Adityanath chairs a meeting to discuss COVID-19 situation in the state.
IRCTC to offer ticket booking from May 11 as Railways get ready to restart limited train services: Indian Railways on Sunday (May 10) announced that it is planning to gradually restart passenger train operations from May 12, 2020. Indian Railways announced that the services will restart initially with 15 pairs of trains (30 return journeys). These trains will be run as special trains from New Delhi Station connecting Dibrugarh, Agartala, Howrah, Patna, Bilaspur, Ranchi, Bhubaneswar, Secunderabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Thiruvananthapuram, Madgaon, Mumbai Central, Ahmedabad and Jammu Tawi. (read here)
Maharashtra: 58 new cases reported from Aurangabad, tally rises to 616 in the district.
Railway: First train from Howrah to Delhi to ply on 12 May and the first train from New Delhi to Howrah will ply on May 13. (both the trains will run on daily basis)
India COVID-19 data: In last 24 hours, 4213 new cases and 97 deaths have been recorded which is the highest single-day spike in India. Previously the highest rise was 3900 cases on May 5.
India COVID-19 data: Total number of coronavirus cases in India mounts to 67,152 which includes 44,029 active cases, 20,916 recovered cases, 1 migrant patient and 2,206 deaths as per Ministry of Health data.
South Western Railway operates special trains to ferry stranded migrant workers, students: The South Western Railway operated six Shramik special trains on Sunday, carrying 7,353 passengers to their home town, said Chief Public Relations Officer, South Western Railway, Hubballi. (ANI input)
Railway: South Eastern Railway reduces speed of all goods, special trains to 40 kmph in its Kharagpur-Bhadrak section till Monday morning owing to the movement of migrant workers along railway tracks. (PTI info)
Agra: Special Officer Dr. RC Pandey to take charge as Agra Chief Medical Officer with immediate effect, replacing Dr. Mukesh Kumar Vats.
Rajasthan: With 106 fresh cases and two more COVID-19 deaths, the state's tally rises 3,814 which includes 1,465 active cases and 108 deaths.
Today, technology is helping many in the efforts to make the world free from COVID-19. I salute all those at the forefront of research and innovation on ways to defeat Coronavirus. May we keep harnessing technology in order to create a healthier and better planet: PM Modi
People arrive at wholesale fruit and vegetable market in Delhi’s Ghazipur, to make purchases amid coronavirus lockdown.
NSG records first coronavirus case as medical staff tests COVID-19 positive at Manesar.
First Air India special flight from the US brings in 225 Indians from San Francisco to Mumbai: Dr S Jaishankar, External Affairs Minister
A special train carrying 1200 passengers departed from Surat (Gujarat) for Kathgodam in Uttarakhand at 4 am: Uttarakhand Chief Minister's Office
In a letter to Union Textile Minister Smriti Irani, Telangana Municipal Administration and Urban Development Minister KT Rama Rao has urged for cooperation to protect livelihoods of people in textile industry.
Air India flight 1387 carrying Indians from Manila, Philippines has arrived in Mumbai: Dr S Jaishankar, External Affairs Minister
UGC urges universities to set up grievances cell for students amid COVID-19 crisis.
PM Narendra Modi to meet CMs today (Monday 11) at 3 pm to review the COVID-19 situation in different states.
As the nationwide coronavirus lockdown 3.0 is scheduled to end on May 17, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will interact with Chief Ministers of various states via video conference on Monday (May 11) afternoon. According to reports, the Prime Minister will review India’s progress in containing coronavirus disease while gradually restarting economic activities in a phased manner.
The Prime Minister is also expected to discuss the next stage in the exit from the nationwide lockdown and will take feedback from states on further easing restrictions on economic activities. Discussions are also expected to take place on tackling the coronavirus pandemic in containment zones.
The number of coronavirus cases in India mounted to 67,152. So far, 2,206 have lost their lives due to the infection. Maharashtra, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh are among the worst affected states that together account for almost half the number of cases and around 72 percent deaths in the country.
On March 24, the Prime Minister had announced a 21-day lockdown as a precautionary measure to contain the spread of COVID-19. The lockdown was later extended till May 3 and later to May 17.
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